{"id":1091,"date":"2009-10-19T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T08:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2009-10-20T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:13:07","slug":"reusing_puppet_providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2009\/10\/19\/reusing_puppet_providers.php","title":{"rendered":"Reusing Puppet Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I was thinking about writing scripts to manage services, packages etc in a heterogeneous environment. This is hard because the operating systems all behave differently.<\/p>\n

This is of course a problem that Puppet solves with it’s providers system, after some chatting with Luke on IRC I now have a pretty nice solution.<\/p>\n

Assuming you don’t mind shell scripting in Ruby here’s a pretty decent bit of Ruby to manage a service on many different environments.<\/p>\n

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\nrequire 'puppet'\n\nservice = ARGV.shift\naction = ARGV.shift\n\nARGV.length > 0 ? hasstatus = true : hasstatus = false\n\nbegin\n    svc = Puppet::Type.type(:service).new(:name => service, \n        :hasstatus => hasstatus).provider\n\n    svc.send action\n\n    puts(\"#{service} #{action} status: #{svc.status}\")\nrescue Exception => e\n    puts(\"Could not #{action} service #{service}: #{e}\")\nend\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\n# service.rb httpd stop true\nhttpd stop status: stopped\n\n# service.rb httpd start true\nhttpd start status: running\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
You’d probably want to put in support for the pattern parameter to keep certain broken Operating Systems happy, but this is pretty nice and platform independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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